CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER VII
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He learned in that instant two things: one being that even in so long a time she had gathered no knowledge of his great intimacy and his great quarrel; the other that in spite of this ignorance, strangely enough, she supplied on the spot a reason for his stupor. "How extraordinary," he presently exclaimed, "that we should never have known!"
She gave a wan smile which seemed to Stransom stranger even than the fact itself. "I never, never spoke of him."